All, Round Tuits are in short supply around here. However my wife (after *two years* of patiently waiting) finally started shopping for printers, motivating me (it's not the money, it's the pride) to finish the repair I'd started on the Apple Stylewriter I was whining about on the list in January 2002. Success! I dug out the packet of 2SB1243 transistors (thanks Pete Turnbull for specs and identification) that arrived in the mail a few days after motivation disappeared in 2002, tested them to make sure the Base was the same place on the new package style (not the same beveled edge square package as the originals) as it was on the old package style (thanks Tony D. for telling how to test with analog VOM), and soldered them in. Put everything back together (thanks JPero, Toth, and Matt for help there and suggestions on other things to check) and plugged in the new (replaces the one I fried while testing - thanks Saint Don Maslin) power supply. No response. Changed to the other Stylewriter (won't print, but powers up) that I got from Electronics Plus (thanks Cindy Croxton). Powered up, didn't print. Changed back. The original one powered up and printed! The power supply connector is grungy, need to clean it, but otherwise the unit appears functional! That implies that the power transistor was indeed the problem all along. Main point of this message is to offer sincere gratitude to all the folks that helped me along the way! Secondarily, if anyone has the same fault (missing line of dots in the printed output from a Stylewriter), I'll be happy to pass along my experience, FWIW. Tertiarily, I'm angling for the honor of the longest (chronologically) continued thread on the list ;-). -- - Mark 210-522-6025, page 888-733-0967